On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:42:32PM +0200, Arent Storm wrote: > From: "I. Oppenheim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > They are non standard in Western music, but you will > > find something like [K:D _b _e ^f] often in e.g. > > Klezmer (Ahavoh Rabboh) or Arabic music (Maqam Hedjaz). > > My first thing will always be to remove any non standard > explicit accidentals, replacing them with inline accidentals > and inform the player textwise that he/she is playing an unusual > mode/key. Anyway lots of klezmer tunes change mode/key > every few bars so the need for non-classical is rather limited IMO. > The mode/key/accidental stuff is way too complicated for the > average folk player (in the Netherlands anyway - wer'e not > so smart you know ;-)
I remember when I first heard mention that "modes" could be introduced into the ABC key signature (or maybe it was when I discovered they had been. I don't remember it *that* well). I felt the same about that. Complicated, academic, abstract, who on earth needs it ? But I had a poke around with it, one rainy Sunday afternoon, just to see what happened. And I discovered, to my suprise, that it worked better than what I knew. It was a better description. I could get the key signature I wanted _and_ say what the tonic was, both in one move. So it became worthwhile to understand them; and now, years later, I can even remember whether I mean dorian or mixolydian without having to look them up, though I don't use the others so much. If there are people who use ABC, or are considering using ABC, for music where non-standard signatures are less non-standard, they might make the same discovery. -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
